The USDA apparently cares enough to have cited these labs over and over again, expecting at the very least rudimentary animal care, but it is woefully inadequate at fining, inspecting, and citing labs.

As a Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who has long studied the social and emotional lives of other animals I was deeply disappointed to read that faculty at the school continue to have students kill hundreds of animals in outdated classroom laboratories every year.